Andy Walsh describes Deel's Ghostbusters, cross-functional consultants who fix process bottlenecks that span multiple departments. They redesign workflows using AI and automation, working under a 24-hour service-level agreement to speed up sales, customer success, and onboarding.
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You all have 24-hour SLAs, right? What a Ghostbuster does is you can insert them into the business cross-functionally. Big problems at companies that really slow the business down are often not something you can control within one department. Because if it's some— something that just affects sales, I can fix it. But if it's something that crosses sales and customer success and onboarding, there's a lot of coordination required. And so a Ghostbuster, who are they? They're consultants, they're AI engineers, they're people who problem solve. I've realized a problem, I insert the Ghostbuster, they work cross-functionally across the teams, they remap a new process, often with AI, often with automation, and the goal is to make the business faster.